Face/Off (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
by John Woo
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Actor: Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Joan Allen, John Travolta, Nicolas CageDirector: John Woo
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Barrie M. Osborne
Producer: Christopher Godsick
Producer: David Permut
Producer: Jeff Levine
Producer: Jonathan D. Krane
Writer: Michael Colleary
Writer: Mike Werb
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; Latin (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Face/Off (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: "I'm ready, ready for the big ride baby! "
Summary: 5 Stars
John Woo has always been a master behind the camera. But unfortunately his American films have never been so great. This is by far his best attempt at an American Hollywood Blockbuster. The story, the pace, the action are all beyond perfect in this amazing action thriller.
John Travolta and Nicolas Cage star in this flick as two different men, one is the law and the other a criminal that wants to unleash terror. Who is who is for you to see, either way both will switch roles. To clarify for those who haven't seen it. Sean Archer (Travolta) is in urge for revenge after his son is murdered by a dangerous and insane terrorist known as Castor Troy (Cage). Castor is eventually captured by Archer...but he needs immediately the location of explosives that are ready to detonate. Since no one will tell him the location...he will have to become him. Literally.
It seems sort of silly when you think about it, but the writers wrote the script in a fashion that we forget the disbelief and take it for what it is...a movie. Not to mention Woo's amazing gun fu sequences which are exhilarating! The best since Hard Boiled and The Killer. I honestly can't think of anything big to criticize about this flick, it's by far a perfect action movie. This is definitely a must see on a surround sound system. A must own by all means!!
MY PERSONAL RATING: 5 OUT OF 5
Summary of Face/Off (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) knows how to stop elusive terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). He'll become him. Archer undergoes a futuristic surgery and has Troy's face mapped onto his, then infiltrates the terrorist's world to discover his deadly secrets. But as much as Archer looks and acts like Troy, he doesn't really know him. He never figures Troy will retaliate and force doctors to transform him into Archer. Now the agent faces a shattering nightmare: his archrival is living with his family. The Travolta/Cage star-power comes on strong and so does the excitement in this roaring thrill machine of a movie directed by John Woo (Broken Arrow). So buckle up. It's going to be a furious fight.At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/Off marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a double-barreled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) becomes a perversely paternal family man while using every tool at his disposal to destroy his nemesis. Travolta vamps Cage's tics and flamboyant excess with the grace of a dancer after his transformation from cop to criminal, while Cage plays the sullen, bottled-up agent excruciatingly trapped behind the face of the man who killed his son. His attempts to live up to the terrorist's reputation become cathartic explosions of violence that both thrill and terrify him. This is merely icing on the cake for action fans, the dramatic backbone for some of the most visceral action thrills ever. Woo fills the screen with one show-stopping set piece after another, bringing a poetic grace to the action freakout with sweeping camerawork and sophisticated editing. This marriage of melodrama and mayhem ups the ante from cops-and-robbers clich?s to a conflict of near-mythic levels. --Sean Axmaker
At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/Off marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a double-barreled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) becomes a perversely paternal family man while using every tool at his disposal to destroy his nemesis. Travolta vamps Cage's tics and flamboyant excess with the grace of a dancer after his transformation from cop to criminal, while Cage plays the sullen, bottled-up agent excruciatingly trapped behind the face of the man who killed his son. His attempts to live up to the terrorist's reputation become cathartic explosions of violence that both thrill and terrify him. This is merely icing on the cake for action fans, the dramatic backbone for some of the most visceral action thrills ever. Woo fills the screen with one show-stopping set piece after another, bringing a poetic grace to the action freakout with sweeping camerawork and sophisticated editing. This marriage of melodrama and mayhem ups the ante from cops-and-robbers clich?s to a conflict of near-mythic levels. --Sean Axmaker
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